So, this shall be my new blog, my blog of awesome. Lol. Well, perhaps not awesome, but about writing and my universe, getting published… living the dream… all that guff.
I will endeavour to minimise whining, bitching, moaning and generally acting like a douche bag when I have bad days, and I will try very hard not to give any massive spoilers for writing to come. Anything else… is up for negotiation and the sometimes fickle decisions of an author.
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Today (well, the beginning of this year), is the beginning of my new leaf on life. I want to be published, I want to write for a living and I want others to love my work. Now I can’t do too much about that last one, but with a little faith and belief in myself and a lot of one of my greatest strengths (persistence) I am teaching myself html and I am about to start my massive website that I’ve planned and dreamed of for nearly ten years in earnest. This blog will form a part of the website.
The plan is to create a site where I can post up scenes from Rise of Hawk and perhaps later books for people to read. I also want the website to be a place where people can immerse themselves in the universe, and find extras and Easter eggs to the story they already love. In addiction to that, I’d like a shop for selling art and maps and all that. I also want to collate the posted stories as books and sell them as a digital book as well as hard copy books through sites like lulu.com and my website shop. The hope is that I can generate enough of a fan base or perhaps get the attentions of the right people to get the rest of my series published in the conventional sense. My focus is equal parts “fame” and “money”. My priority is getting out there and having readers who love the universe. I want the “fame” part so I can get “immortality” as one of the “great sci fi” writers of my time, I want to become a part of the genre. The “money” part is partially, of course about my wish to not be poor any more, but partially also because I have a number of ideas about how to use money to genuinely and effectively help people gain freedom in their lives, and those ideas/programs require a lot of funds.
I want to be free, I want to free others and I want to be immortal.
Another part of the plan is to facilitate other writers and artists, at first through publishing fan fiction and using art of scenes/aspects of the writing universe to advertise myself and the artist, and then later through the founding of organisations and programs that will support writers and artists bring their dreams to reality. I want to enrich my life, and then spread that enrichment as far as I can and help others out of the mud.
Ultimately, in my biggest wildest dreams, I want a TV series and movies in my universe. I want to see my characters on the screen and permeate our modern culture in a similar scale as Star Wars and Star Trek and Stargate, and all the known sci fi universes. Maybe have computer games as well 
I know this dream sounds huge, it sounds like I’m a power hungry maniac. But I want to be a force for good in the world, I want to have lived and be remembered. And I want to do something I love for a living. I want my career and my impact on the world to be something that I am passionate about and something that I love. This writing universe and all the hundreds of characters and stories within it is something I love and something I’m passionate about, I breathe it now. And, the truth is I don’t want to do anything else. I mean, I can do something else if I have to, but this is what I want to do, this is a part of my identity and I refuse to let go of it and I refuse to allow the cynicism of others crush my hopes and dreams.
So what if it’s improbable! I don’t care, I’m doing it. If all those people in our history who did amazing things listened to the nay-sayers we wouldn’t have those events. Sir Peter Blake. Sir Edmund Hillary. The great pioneering figures of science, politics, medicine, physics, science fiction… they all, when faced with people who told them it was impossible simply turned away and did it anyway. That’s what I’m doing. I have to believe it’s going to happen because there’s no other option.
This is my religion. I have absolute faith that it’s going to happen if I just keep chugging along. And that’s what I’m doing.
So… ON TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
